One Million Rising is an Indivisible initiative to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of noncooperation, community organizing, and campaign design.
The goal is to build people power and prepare our groups for mass noncooperation. One Million Rising was presented in three sessions.
Session One: The Movement and Your Mission
Training one lays the foundation for noncooperation at scale by teaching us about authoritarianism and the pillars that uphold it:
- Business
- Labor
- Faith
- Education
- Civil service
- Military police
The session also discussed kinds of noncooperation and examples. In this training, attendees were asked to host a community resistance gathering.
Links:
Plan a Community Resistance Gathering toolkit
Session Two: How to Make It Happen
The second training focused on planning gatherings and taking action in your community.
Links
Community Resistance Gathering host guide
Session Three: What Now?
The third training provided three specific campaigns to implement locally for noncompliance. The session also provided information on how to host a second gathering.
Slides
The campaigns launched included:
Signs of Solidarity
Visit local businesses and educate them about immigration and ICE, and ask them to put up a sign that shows support for immigrants and a rejection of ICE.
Indivisible Las Vegas is creating a task force to launch this across Las Vegas. We’ll work in teams to canvas locations and will provide stickers for businesses to put in their windows to demonstrate they are protecting immigrants and standing against ICE. For businesses that agree, we will also highlight them to our membership to initiate a buy-cott (the opposite of a boycott).
Sign up to join the task force.
You’ll be matched with a buddy if you need one, and then coordinate with that person on a time and date.
Fight Back Against Redistricting Coup
Part of this campaign was the protests on August 16. The second part involves contacting officials with instructions for blue and red states.
Ground Avelo
Avelo is an agent of ICE, running deportation flights in the shadows. The initiative includes protesting, putting pressure on local governments and universities working with Avelo, and signing the pledge not to fly Avelo.
Avelo no longer flies to or from Las Vegas. Our lane for this would be to contact Avelo leadership and express opposition to their ICE relationship via social media. The latter is already underway.
Other Links
All flyers, signs, and printed material for One Million Rising